Business Sony Innovation Fund Backs Primitive Labs, a Startup That Builds Simulated Crowds to Stress-Test Products Before Launch Apple Intelligence Apple Removed the Apple Intelligence Off Switch in macOS 27 — So a Developer Built a CLI That Deletes It Anyway Security OpenAI Turns On Invisible Text Watermarks for ChatGPT in the EU — and Publishes Exactly How Weak They Are News A Mystery 'Space Bunny Alpha' Model Just Topped OpenRouter's Leaderboard With 38.7 Trillion Tokens a Week News AMD Goes All-In on the 192GB "Agentic PC" Two Days Before the Nvidia RTX Spark Event: 300-Billion-Parameter Models, No Cloud Required ChatGPT OpenAI Will Put Sponsored Images Inside ChatGPT Image Generation — Testing in the US This Month for Its 1.2 Billion Weekly Users Opinion Hinton, Bengio and 20 Other Top Researchers Warn a Year of AI Progress Could Soon Take Five Weeks Business Schneider Electric to Buy PTC for $22.6 Billion in Its Largest-Ever Deal — and Its Stock Dropped 9% on the Price Tag Business Sony Innovation Fund Backs Primitive Labs, a Startup That Builds Simulated Crowds to Stress-Test Products Before Launch Apple Intelligence Apple Removed the Apple Intelligence Off Switch in macOS 27 — So a Developer Built a CLI That Deletes It Anyway Security OpenAI Turns On Invisible Text Watermarks for ChatGPT in the EU — and Publishes Exactly How Weak They Are News A Mystery 'Space Bunny Alpha' Model Just Topped OpenRouter's Leaderboard With 38.7 Trillion Tokens a Week News AMD Goes All-In on the 192GB "Agentic PC" Two Days Before the Nvidia RTX Spark Event: 300-Billion-Parameter Models, No Cloud Required ChatGPT OpenAI Will Put Sponsored Images Inside ChatGPT Image Generation — Testing in the US This Month for Its 1.2 Billion Weekly Users Opinion Hinton, Bengio and 20 Other Top Researchers Warn a Year of AI Progress Could Soon Take Five Weeks Business Schneider Electric to Buy PTC for $22.6 Billion in Its Largest-Ever Deal — and Its Stock Dropped 9% on the Price Tag

X

xAI

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Leadership

Elon Musk

Headquarters

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Official Site

xAI is Elon Musk's AI company building the Grok assistant and the Colossus supercomputer in Memphis. Its models are integrated with X and aim to understand the true nature of the universe.

Company Timeline

2023-07-12

Founded

xAI founded by Elon Musk

Mission stated as understanding the true nature of the universe.

2024-05-26

Funding

$6B Series B at an $18B valuation

Funding earmarked for bringing Colossus supercomputer online.

2025-03-28

Acquisition

xAI acquires X (Twitter) in an all-stock deal

Combined company valued at about $80B for xAI and $33B for X.

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